How to Use hepatitis C in a Sentence

hepatitis C

noun

• Now, hepatitis C can be cured 95% of the time with pills in as little as eight weeks.
  — John Whyte, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
• Gilead, in particular, has been in the crosshairs over the years for the prices of its HIV and hepatitis C medicines.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 May 2020
• That was the case for William Glover-Bey, who was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1992.
  — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Some had contracted hepatitis C, which is spread the same way as HIV.
  — Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 30 June 2021
• The company’s big break came in 2011 with the approval of Incivek, a hepatitis C treatment.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022
• That’d be a classic move against a virus—HIV typically gets a three-drug combo, and hepatitis C gets two.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
• Most people who have hepatitis C won’t have symptoms for years if ever.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2022
• The hepatitis C virus is spread through contact with blood from an infected person.
  — Mike Stobbe, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
• The path Saddler took was an attempt to curb a raging hepatitis C caseload, which had emerged as a direct result of the heroin crisis.
  — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2021
• Syringe programs halve the spread of H.I.V. and hepatitis C; naloxone, when distributed to users and their peers, can cut overdose deaths by more than forty per cent.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Minot had the worst recent outbreak of hepatitis C in the country, and getting that under control had taken years.
  — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• By the time Jaenisch's case was cured at age 31, the landscape of hepatitis C treatment had changed dramatically.
  — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Protease inhibitors are used to treat other viral pathogens, like hepatitis C and HIV.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• One ornament for $25 can help purchase HIV and hepatitis C kits.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2022
• People with chronic hepatitis C can often have no symptoms and don’t feel sick.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2022
• The verdict is smaller than the $2.5 billion verdict won by Merck & Co. over a hepatitis C treatment.
  — oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2021
• The study found that overall, less than a third of people with health insurance get the hepatitis C medicines within a year of diagnosis.
  — Mike Stobbe, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
• Remdesivir was initially invented as a hepatitis C drug a decade ago but was shelved by Gilead.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
• Showing that this virus was the one that caused hepatitis C turned out to pose another hurdle, however.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2020
• Thirty-seven-year-old Marisa Sprowles was born with hepatitis C, the fallout of a blood transfusion her mother had after knee surgery as a child that had then been passed on to her.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan/undark, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020
• The goal was to screen all Egyptians over the age of 12 for active hepatitis C virus replication along with other chronic conditions.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• More than 95% of people infected with hepatitis C can be cured with a simple course of antivirals.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
• Driver, in turn, needed a battery of precautionary tests for HIV and hepatitis C after the bite.
  — Jason Dearen, Star Tribune, 27 July 2021
• The results of a new study, published in Cell magazine last month, suggest that a cocktail of one polymerase inhibitor—in this case remdesivir—and two hepatitis C drugs might do the trick.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• The number of people needing liver transplants because of hepatitis C has also fallen by two-thirds over the last six years.
  — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• That is why treatments for other viruses such as HIV and hepatitis C consist of multiple drugs.
  — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2022
• Still, hepatitis C treatment rates have been declining annually since 2015, the CDC said in an email.
  — Neeraj G. Patel, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
• Last year’s prize went to three scientists who discovered the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus, a breakthrough that led to cures for the deadly disease and tests to keep the scourge from spreading though blood banks.
  — Time, 4 Oct. 2021
• Last year's prize went to three scientists who discovered the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus, a breakthrough that led to cures for the deadly disease and tests to keep the scourge from spreading though blood banks.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• But a full victory over hepatitis C will not be accomplished only by testing those in high-risk groups, Tilghman added.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024